[Elecraft] Beyond the K2, Part 1 of 3

[David A. Belsley]

The S-meter sensitivity is adjustable anyway.  He can make it read any 
arbitrary way he wants -- which is what S-meters do anyhow.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

--On Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:06 PM -0400 "Guy Olinger, K2AV" 
<olinger@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
>> I loaned my K2/100 to a friend a while back to try with his new
> Alpha 99
>> amp (his rig did not have adjustable tx output).  He returned it the
> next
>> day saying that it worked fine with his new amplifier, but he didn't
> like
>> the K2 because the S-meter was stingy.  This was embarassing for me
> and
>> surely was the loss of a potential Elecraft customer.
>
> Why were you embarrassed? There is NO standard S meter anyway. Won't
> start that thread here, it's in all the archives. The standard that
> some think is the standard, and a few RX actually try and implement,
> rarely can get the linearity and/or uniformity in the rig circuits to
> make the meter match the standard up and down the scale.
>
> Then sometimes people just have to say negative things.
>
> Not to dump on your friend particularly, if the only thing he noticed
> was the S meter, then I would say he was not particularly perceptive
> in this instance. There's a lot to notice, IF you know anything.
>
> Personally, I find the rig, and the seemingly endless stream of
> user-driven circuit upgrades, a veritable smorgasbord of innovation
> and fresh ideas.
>
> And certain aspects of the K2 outperform better known
> "top-of-the-line" contest radios. That's not a made up assessment -- I
> got 'em setting side-by-side on the table here, sometimes tuned to the
> exact same frequency. Run them into the same headsets. K2 left audio,
> MP right audio. Stuff that's louder in the K2 is left, stuff that is
> equal is in the center, stuff louder in the MP is right.
>
> The low and high level muddle that sounds to the right is something
> the MP is adding to the signal on the band. The weak signal that
> sounds to the left is something the K2 is hearing that the MP is
> losing in the muddle.
>
> So all your friend noticed was the S-meter....
>
> Enjoy your K2. Next year this time it will be all the rage among
> contesters. You heard it here first.
>
> 73, Guy
>
>
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David A. Belsley
Professor of Economics